Reversible and adjustable garment.



W. G. P. BALDWIN.

REVERSIBLE AND ADJUSTABLE GARMENT.

APPLICATION rnmn- MAY 11, 1911.

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WILLIAM C. 1. BALDWIN, 0F HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOZR. TO BALDWIN GARMENT COMPANY, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION- OF MASS-A GHUSETTS.

' REVERSIBLE AND ANJ'USTABLE GARMENT.

Patented Sept. 1'7, 1912.

Application filed May 11, 1911. Serial No. 626,603.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. P. BALD- a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible and Adjustable Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved one piece garment which is made up in the form of a robe or dress and comprises a waist and skirt divided at the front and made so that the front portions thereof are reversible and of a similar general character to that described and shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me April 7, 1908,

pearances as suits the wearer.

A further object is to provide peculiarly arranged means for altering the girth and waist line of the garment, and to make provisions whereby such means may be invisible and also easily manipulated.

Another object is to make the garment sothat when it is to be laundried it will not have thereon any buttons, studs or like fastenings. And other objects are, generally to improve, and add to the desirability and attractiveness of the apparel.

The invention is, hereinafter fully described in conjunction with the accompany ing drawings, and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 shows the improved one-piece garment in its spread out condition. Fig. 2 is a side view of the garment as worn, the belt being utilized and visible. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are front views of the garment showing various ways in which it may be worn. Fig. 6 is a cross section taken on line 6-6, Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a cross section taken on the line 7-7, Fig. 4. Fig. Sis a section similar to Fig. 6 but showing a smaller girth of the garment and the means of acquiring it. Fig. 9 is a cross-section taken on the line 99, Fig. 5, wherein the bloused garment is represented. Fig.

- of the belt.

10 is a partial vertical section taken on the view of the belt showing it as provided with its series of buttonholes. spective view of the stud or button such as used in conjunction with the garment. Fig. 13 is a front view of the garment as worn showing a somewhat different adjustment the garment showing additional features. Fig. 15 is a cross section taken on the line 1.5-15, Fig. 14. Figs. 16 and 17 are cross sections taken on the line 16-46, Fig. 13 and showing different methods of varying the girth of the garment and wearing the belt; Figs. 18 and 19 show appliances for Fig. 14 is a side vlew of Fig. 12 is a perconcealing the garment adjusting and confining means.

In the drawings, A represents the back of the garment, the lower portion 22 of which constitutes a skirt of usual or proper length.

B and B represent side portions which are continuous with the back and its skirt to form the apron members or reversible portions so that one may overslip the other-at the front and extend tothe sides of the erson as indicated in Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 an 14.

The garment has a plurality of inner button-holes at a and 0', at the waist line, and

approximately where what may be regarded as the apron members merge into the back, and at the edge of the apron members at the waist line are also the groups of outer button holes as d and 61. Each of the groups, as

here shown, comprise nine buttonholes arranged in three rows, one above the other, each row including three holes.

Over the buttonholes 0 and c are appliances which may be simple flaps, although here they are shown as pockets at f and f, in Figs. 2, 14, 18 and 19, the top portions of which are secured to the garment and the pocket or flap is free to be folded back away from the buttonholes c and 1; when adjustment of the'garment is necessary. After the wearer has determined which set of buttonholes to use, the flap may be sewed permanently in place so that she may use the same buttonhole every time the garment is worn.

A belt e is provided having buttonholes h at its ends and also buttonholes c at two intermediate portions thereof. The belt may have single rows of three button holes 55 line 10--10, Fig. 6. Fig. 11 is a perspective at the various portions of its length, or, if

' desired, but not generally necessary or desirable, it may have multiple rows of'the .shown in Fig. 12 are used, and these may be easil inserted in the button holes and drem(()1ve when the garment is to be laun- 1 me v of the garment may be raised or lowered by I From the foregoing description, and on reference to Figs. 5, 6 and 8, it will be apparent that by the employment of the large number or multiple series of button-holes 1n the garment the waist line and girth of the garment may be changed as desired without permanent alteration thereof,

'When the garment is to be worn, the apron member B is la ped over the similar apron member B- W 1ch is secured to a stud g engagin v at c.

secured toa stud or double button 9 in thein the proper button-hole The over apping member B is then proper button-hole as at a. The waist line placing the studs or buttons g in a higher or lower button-hole as the case may be, and

to change the girth or waist-measure of the garment, the studs may be moved inwardly or outwardly from one button-hole to the next in the same row of holes until the proper measure is. obtained. A scope of several inches is generally allowed for adjustment. a

, If-it is desired to produce a blouse efiect the waist measure on the garment itself may be left large. and the proper adjustthe garment by foldin back and securing the ment secured by means of the belt as is shown in Fig. 9.

v The garment may be converted into a so--- called Princess type ofdress by -removing the belt entirely therefrom, or if desired the belt may be allowed to remain on the ends thereof uttonholes in the ends to the studs in the button holes at 0 apronmember, as indicated or shown in and 0, when by reversing the order of the overlapping apron members the belt will be entirely concealed beneath the outermost Fi s.4and7.

H en the apron member B becomes soiled it may have 'a reversed arrangement with respect to the other apron member B, so

that the latter is presented outermost for a fresh and clean appearance.

The belt, havin a plurality of buttonholes is capable 0 much variance in waist measure and fits perfectly at any condition of the garment.

' Since all the studs may be removed and the garment is of such simple construction the laundrying thereof 'is easily accomplished.

1. A single piece waist and sln'rt garment havin overlapping apron sections which exten across the front of the body of'the wearer with their edges terminating at the sides, there being outer button holes adjacentthe ed es of the apron sections and mner button oles at the sides of the garment,

the inner and outer holes being arranged at the waistline and spaced at approximately equal distances apart, andia fastener. arranged inone inner hole and to the inner end of which the underlapped apron section is buttoned, and a fastener in the other inner hole andto the outer end of which the overlapped apron section is buttoned whereby thevapron sections may be reversed.

2; A single-piece waist and skirt garment having reversible overlappin apron sections, there bein at the waistline inner and outer groups of utton holes spaced at equal distances apart, the outer groups of holes being adjacent the edges of the apron sections and the inner groups being located at the sides of the garment to register with the holes in the apron sections, the holes of each group being arranged in horizontal and vertical rows, fasteners engaged in appropriate holes of the registering grou s whereby the waist-line and the girth can be adjusted to suit .the form of the wearer, and a belt ca able of being worn around the outside 0 the garment and attached to the outer ends of the fasteners or capable of being worn between the overlapping apron sections and held by the fasteners whereby the style of the garment can be changed.-

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

WILLIAM C. P. BALDWIN. 

